bore with
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to make someone feel bored by talking about something uninteresting
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Examples (10)
- I won't bore you with all the technical details.
- He bored everyone at the party with his endless stories about fishing.
- The professor managed to bore the entire class with a two-hour lecture on a single footnote.
- Please don't bore me with your excuses; just get the work done.
- She tried not to bore her friends with constant updates about her wedding plans.
- Am I boring you with all this talk about my stamp collection?
- He has a tendency to bore people with tales of his past achievements.
- Let's get straight to the point, so I don't bore you with a long introduction.
- The manager bored the team with yet another presentation on quarterly figures.
- My grandfather would bore us for hours with stories from his youth.